California spending billions to house homeless in hotels
Associated PressLOS ANGELES — When homeless outreach workers first visited her encampment under a Los Angeles highway overpass last fall, Veronica Perez was skeptical of their offer of not just a bed, but a furnished apartment complete with meals, counseling and the promise of some stability in her life. Newsom signed the funding bill July 19, calling it the “largest single investment in providing support for the most vulnerable in American history.” Newsom’s office said $800 million — most of it federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act money — was spent on Homekey in 2020 to provide shelter for 8,200 people. “If you think of last year as a proof of concept, you can think of this year as taking this strategy to scale and making it a centerpiece of California’s approach to housing the homeless,” said Jason Elliott, senior counselor to Newsom. The state’s effort should be applauded but amounts to a “drop in the bucket,” said Eve Garrow, analyst with the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California. “This is substantial, but it’s nowhere near enough to meet the needs of all the people currently displaced from housing,” she said.
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